The Total Leader® Developing Strategy, Building Leadership Cultures, Improving Productivity
Your company will achieve greater profitability, better performance and a higher return on investment when you communicate a vision-driven strategy, develop leaders throughout your organization, and increase productivity of your people. Together with you, we focus solely on delivering results you can measure.
How will you Minimize Risk and Maximize Value when you Exit?
LMI has the experience and a proven process to help business owners clearly understand your options, reduce risk and ensure a successful exit from your business. Our business exit and succession planning process provides peace of mind to the owners and senior level executives of closely held and family owned businesses.
Setting clear objectives
Protecting and maximizing value while reducing risk
Integrating the work of all of your trusted advisors
Addressing the triple bottom line of financial, family and legacy Click here...
Achieving Manager Study
The Achieving Manager Study - Breakthrough Research
“If we know one thing today…it is most managers are made, not born…there has to be a systematic work on the supply, the development, and the skills of tomorrow’s management…it cannot be left to chance.”
- Peter F. Drucker
The Achieving Manager study is based in solid science and shows definitively the common behavioral characteristics that the top achieving leaders employ to set themselves apart from their lesser achieving colleagues. These leaders were most highly valued by their respective companies and were promoted faster and given the most responsibility for managing their organization's assets and people.
It proves leadership is not accidental.
There is a model for effective leadership that exists and it can be modeled through programs by The Achieving Manager Experience. Read more...[The Achieving Manager Study]
Are You Executing your Strategy?
We have been in challenging times and most likely will be for some time. In any market, sustainable high performance requires a sharp focus on strategy execution. The evidence is clear:
73% of companies that outperform their peers have a formal process for communicating strategy to employees.1
Strategy execution is the #1 concern of CEOs worldwide.2
Only 12% of companies successfully execute their strategy.3
Is your organization operating by a strategic plan? Are you integrating strategy and operations to create sustainable breakthrough performance? Atlantic Leadership Group has a proven process to help you succeed in any market. Read more...[Are You Executing Your Strategy]
Strategic Alignment
“Are we measuring and rewarding the specific behavior we want?”
- Jack Welch
The former Chairman and CEO of General Electric worked very hard to get the best from all of his employees. By most accounts he was very successful at doing it.
Do you measure and reward performance effectively and in a way that aligns with your strategic objectives? Do you feel like you have good people, but fail to get their best effort? Can you articulate a clear, shared vision and strategy for achieving it? All great organizations share several key elements. Read more...[Strategic Alignment]
Employees with competent management are 30% less likely to develop heart disease2
Most management training is subjective, sometimes negative, and not validated by research
Only 17% of managers are highly effective1
A model for effective management exists and it can be learned1
1Hall, J. (1988). Models for management: The structure of competence: Classic theories and facts about managing people 2Kivimaki M, Ferrie JE, Brunner E, Head J, Shipley MJ, Vahtera J et al., (2005). Justice at work and reduced risk of coronary heart disease among employees: The Whitehall II Study.
Leadership Inspiration
A Testament to What's Possible
Paul J. Meyer: What it Takes to be a Winner
Those who know Paul J. Meyer best believe that if he was stripped of all his possessions and dropped off in some part of the world where he knew neither the language nor another person, not only would he survive, but in a short time he would thrive. Read more...
Why Goal Setting Matters
Research suggests that 95% - 97% of the people in the world do NOT have written goals and fail, while 3-5% have written goals and succeed
Goal Setting is a powerful way to build self-confidence and self-esteem
Fear of Losing - Many people do not set goals because they are afraid they will be criticized for not reaching them
Fear of Winning - Odd as it may seem, some people do not set goals because they fear success
"I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps it's because escape is easier than change" - Jim Rohn